Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I were on it. Those whistles sing bewitchment: railways are irresistible bazaars …
– Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar
Peshawar to Lahore, Pakistan
Mexico
Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump aboard
or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.
– Yasmina Khadra
Kyoto, Japan
The train is a small world moving through a larger world.
– Elisha Cooper, Train
Bangladesh
Bangladesh
A train is a vehicle that allows residence:
dinner in the diner, nothing could be finer…
– Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar
Decca to Peshawar, India
Be like a train; go in the rain, go in the sun, go in the storm,
go in the dark tunnels! Be like a train; concentrate on your road
and go with no hesitation!
– Mehmet Murat Ildan
New York, New York, USA
Railway terminals are our gates to the glorious and the unknown.
Through them, we pass out into adventure and sunshine,
to them, alas! we return.
– E. M. Forster
Yangon, Myanmar
There’s something about the sound of a train that’s
very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
– Paul Simon
Dacca to Peshawar, Chittagong, Bangladesh
Myanmar
The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered
is to miss the train before.
– G.K. Chesterton
Dacca to Peshawar, India
Missing a train is only painful if you run after it!
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Rangoon, Burma
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Many times the wrong train took me to the right place.
– Paulo Coelho
Dacca to Peshawar, West Bengal, India
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
My heart is warm with the friends I make,
And better friends I’ll not be knowing,
Yet there isn’t a train I wouldn’t take,
No matter where it’s going.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Selected Poetry
Dacca to Peshawar, Agra, India
Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India
